Linn County REC :: Animal Contact Reduction Program






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		Animal Contact Reduction Program Squirrels, raccoons or birds can all cause outages if they come in contact with energized wires on a pole or in a substation. If an animal does make contact, this can cause a power outage or blinking lights in your home or business. In order to help alleviate this problem, Linn County REC initiated an animal contact reduction program for all substations. This substation program follows efforts to reduce the number of individual outages due to animal contact. On major substation maintenance projects or new substation construction projects, wildlife guards are included in design and installation at strategic locations within the substation. Additional wildlife guards are also installed at substation locations and overhead transformers where animal related outages have occurred more frequently. We include a wildlife guard on each new overhead transformer before it is installed. Where necessary, tin flashing is also used to deter an animal from climbing a pole.
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